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Nicholas (Nick) Ernest DeFirmian, born July 26, 1957, is an American Grandmaster (1985). In 1986, he won the World Open and first prize of $21,000. He was U.S. chess champion in 1987 (tied with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998.&nbsp...
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Zoltan Almasi, born Aug 29, 1976, was a Hungarian Grandmaster (1993) at the age of 17. He has won the Hungarian championship six times. In 2000 he was ranked #23 in the world. In 1993, he won the World Junior Championsh...
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First introduced at Paris in 1878, adjournment is a time out between playing sessions, generally overnight. The side that is on the move seals (writes on a piece of paper and seals it in an envelope) a legal move, sight unseen by his o...
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In 2003, former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov was kicked out of a chess tournament because his cell phone rang during the course of a match. As per article 13.4 of the laws of chess, he was disqualified when his cell phone rang during a g...
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A $100,000 prize created in 1980 by computer science professor Edward Fred kin, for the first computer to beat a reigning world chess champion. The prize was awarded to the inventors of the Deep Blue machine in 1997. Deep Blue beat wor...
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The first computer to win a state championship (Mississippi in 1981). It won with 5 wins and no losses. Its first rating was 2258, running on a Cray-1 computer. At the time, it was the world’s fastest computer (80 mil...
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Dr. Hans Berliner, born Jan 27, 1929, is a computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence and winner of the 5th world correspondence championship (1965-68). His 3-point margin of victory (14-2) was the greatest margin of victory ...
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The first chess effort on the part of a computer is a mate in 2 programmed in 1949 on a Ferranti digital machine. The first computer program that played proper chess was written at MIT by Alex Bernstein in 1959. The Massachusetts Amateur Champions...
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Viktor Korchnoi, born March 23, 1931, is a Grandmaster (1956) and four times Soviet champion (1960, 1962, 1964, 1970). He was the Dutch champion in 1977 and the Swiss champion in 1982, 1984, and 1985. He played on six of the USSR's...
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Chess computer program written at Northwestern University by David Slate and Larry Atkin. In February 1977, it won the Minnesota Open Championship. In August 1977, it won the second World Championship. In September 1977, it achie...
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